But the Philosophic Poet accounts for it by the heightened sense of safety; and not on the principle of Malevolence [note in original] BACK

[2] This question may come before the jury in Cases of Homicide, Assault and Battery, and other charges of that nature, which may be justifiable on circumstances: but in many if the fact is found, as in Forgery, &c. the criminality, with some very rare exceptions, is a legal inference necessarily arising from the fact. C. L. [Capel Lofft's note] BACK